Historic England Protects Four Wrecks
The newly protected wrecks are HMT Arfon, Submarine U-8 and HM Submarine A3.
Medieval Vessels
Scores of ancient shipwrecks found in Greek archipelago
RPM Nautical fundation, an American maritime research non-profit, announced this week that they have just uncovered a whopping 22 shipwrecks around the Fourni archipelago—a find they say adds 12 percent to the total number of known ancient shipwrecks in Greece. Over half of the wrecks date to the Late Roman Period (circa 300-600 A.D.). Overall, the shipwrecks span from the Archaic Period (700-480 B.C.) to the Classical (480-323 B.C.) and Hellenistic (323-31 B.C.) through the Late Medieval Period (16th century).
Dr Margaret Rule CBE
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Simon Mlls
Dr Margaret Rule diving the Mary Rose in the 1970s
Dr Margaret Rule CBE, the British archaeologist who supervised the largest maritime archaeological excavation in history and the subsequent raising of King Henry VIII's warship from the Solent seabed, has died aged 86.
Dalarö: Marine Archeological Wreck Park
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Swedish Maritime Museums
The Baltic Sea offers some very treacherous waters even under the best of circumstances. The price to pay for sailing the Baltic through the millenniums has been high, and traces of those costs are scattered over the bottom.
Richard Lundgren: The Man From Mars
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Ingemar Lundgren
You could say that Richard Lundgren’s destiny was cast when his parents took the precocious, then eight-year-old Swedish schoolboy to visit the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.
Archaeological diving parks to open in Greece
After a joint decision between the Ministries of Culture and Mercantile Marine, Greece has announced the creation of its first two diving parks. Located near Pylos in the southwestern Peloponnese, both will enable visitors the opportunity to explore ancient shipwrecks and underwater archaeology. The first park is located at the islet of Sapientza, where archaeologists discovered the remains of ancient trading vessels dating to the Roman, Byzantine and medieval periods.
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